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... early friend Dr. Tomline , Bishop of Lincoln . After the de- cease of the Bishop and of the last Lord Chatham , these MSS . devolved to my cousin , William Stanhope Taylor , Esq . , grand nephew of Mr. Pitt . When Mr. Taylor also died ...
... early friend Dr. Tomline , Bishop of Lincoln . After the de- cease of the Bishop and of the last Lord Chatham , these MSS . devolved to my cousin , William Stanhope Taylor , Esq . , grand nephew of Mr. Pitt . When Mr. Taylor also died ...
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... Early signs of great promise - Feeble health in boyhood - Education - At seventeen admitted M.A. at Cam- bridge - Study of elocution - Death of his father — Economical habits - Entered at Lincoln's Inn - Attends Parliamentary debates ...
... Early signs of great promise - Feeble health in boyhood - Education - At seventeen admitted M.A. at Cam- bridge - Study of elocution - Death of his father — Economical habits - Entered at Lincoln's Inn - Attends Parliamentary debates ...
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... Early signs of great promise - Feeble health in boyhood Education- At seventeen admitted M.A. at Cam- bridge - Study of Elocution - Death of his father - Economical habits — Entered at Lincoln's Inn - Attends Parliamentary debates ...
... Early signs of great promise - Feeble health in boyhood Education- At seventeen admitted M.A. at Cam- bridge - Study of Elocution - Death of his father - Economical habits — Entered at Lincoln's Inn - Attends Parliamentary debates ...
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... early given signs of great promise , was reserved for the Bar . The year 1759 , in which William Pitt was born , was perhaps the most glorious and eventful in his father's life . The impulse given to the war by that great orator and ...
... early given signs of great promise , was reserved for the Bar . The year 1759 , in which William Pitt was born , was perhaps the most glorious and eventful in his father's life . The impulse given to the war by that great orator and ...
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... early age he was wont to select any piece of eloquence he met with and transmit it to his son . Of this I have seen a striking instance in a note from him to Lady Chatham , which is endorsed in pencil " Ma . 1770 , " and which was ...
... early age he was wont to select any piece of eloquence he met with and transmit it to his son . Of this I have seen a striking instance in a note from him to Lady Chatham , which is endorsed in pencil " Ma . 1770 , " and which was ...
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Página 2 - Indeed," says Horace Walpole, in his lively style, " one is forced to ask every " morning what victory there is, for fear of missing " one !